The Five...err Four Doctors!

I just finished watching the awesome Five Doctors. Loved every minute of it! Cybermen! Daleks! Crazy ninja robot guards! Whats not to love, plus an awesome story. My one question is...what the hell tom baker? Barely in it for 5 minutes. Does anybody know the reason he was only in 5 random gondola pondering minutes?

Well the dummy they borrowed from the waxwork museum for the stuck in the vortex scenes got along with the rest of the cast fine, hardly an ego at all to work around.

There's a Four Doctors Audio that's fun with 5, 6, 7 and 8 running afoul of the Daleks, but they don't meet. Then there's a 5 companions Audio on the other hand which gas has Ian Chesterton meeting up with 5 where Nyssa says "Are you sure we should let him do that Doctor Doctor? He's an old man..." to which 5 replies "There are things that that man has done in his life which would turn your hair white Nyssa."

Wow, refused? Did he leave with a bad taste in his mouth? Or what haha

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If I recall, it was because he'd only been away from the part for about three years. He was trying to move on with his career, so he just felt it was too soon.

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Another reason is he felt his popularity would overshadow Peter Davison, which he didn't think would be fair since this was now Davison's show.

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Yea, that's certainly understandable, I would have the same concern for Matt Smith's 50th Anniversary Special, if he was still in his first or Second Series, but, I think after his 3rd Series, he will have made his mark solidly already if the 50th goes Multi-Doctor.

Well the dummy they borrowed from the waxwork museum for the stuck in the vortex scenes got along with the rest of the cast fine, hardly an ego at all to work around.

There's a Four Doctors Audio that's fun with 5, 6, 7 and 8 running afoul of the Daleks, but they don't meet. Then there's a 5 companions Audio on the other hand which gas has Ian Chesterton meeting up with 5 where Nyssa says "Are you sure we should let him do that Doctor Doctor? He's an old man..." to which 5 replies "There are things that that man has done in his life which would turn your hair white Nyssa."

I loved Bakers commentary on one of the DVD where he talks about the wax dummy they got to stand in for him, and how people at the time were prasing his acting in the five doctors and stating how well he was looking.

I haven't seen some of those either. The bottom one with The Fifth Doctor riding K-9 is especially funny.

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If you didn't know that was a wax mummy they're all looking and smiling at, you'd think that they were all reacting to something amusing Tom Baker had just said. Which makes it funny -- but also deeply weird.